To add an invisible text track that contains key words that can later be used to
find points in the movie:
- Open the movie you want to index in MoviePlayer.
- Choose Get Info from the Movie menu, and in the right pop-up choose Time. (The
left pop-up should have Movie chosen.)
- Open Simple Text (or some other text processor). Set up your windows so you can
see the movie, the Info window, and the text window.
- Type {QTtext}{timeScale:30} in the first line of the text window.
- Click on the movie you're indexing, and move the slider to a location which you'd
like to index.
- Click in the text processing window and on the next line, type in brackets the
current time as it appears in the Info window, a return, and the text that you want
to use to index this location.
- Repeat the previous 2 steps for each location you want to index. After the last
word, type a return, and enter, in brackets, the duration that's listed in the Info
window.
- Save the text file.
- In MoviePlayer, choose Import from the File menu, locate the text file you just
saved, and click the Convert button.
- You get a standard save dialog.
- Click Save.
- A new movie, which contains a text track only, appears.
- From the Edit menu, choose Select All and then from the Edit menu again, choose
Copy.
- Click on the movie you're indexing and move the slider to the beginning of the
movie. (All the way to the left.)
- Holding down the option key, choose Add from the Edit menu. The text track is
pasted above the video track.
- From the Edit menu, choose Enable tracks, and in the resulting dialog, click
on the line that says text track, so that the button changes to OFF, and the text
track in the movie window disappears.
- To test your indexing scheme, choose Find from the Edit menu, and type in one
of the key words you entered in the text file.
RETURN TO HOW-TO INDEX
RETURN TO MONTH INDEX
RETURN TO ARCHIVE INDEX
http://www.bmug.org/quicktime
copyright 1996-97 Judith L. Stern and Robert Lettieri, jandr@ccnet.com
QuickTime, the QuickTime logo, and Macintosh are registered trademarks of Apple Computer Inc
